Continuous integration tests [#2536786]

Can someone clue me in on how to use the "Continuous integration tests" section in the "Automated testing" tab for my projects?

There's no link on the page to give me more information, and a search of drupal.org and this issue queue for "Continuous integration tests" brings up nothing. I have not seen an announcement and can't find documentation for this feature. I see it's being used for core, but I don't see how to use it for my own projects.

Comments

Comment #1

jthorson CreditAttribution: jthorson for Drupal Association commented 21 July 2015 at 21:24

Contrib support on DrupalCI has not yet been launched on Drupal.org ... the bulk of the work required to support this was completed at NYCCamp last week, but still needs to undergo some additional testing before full deployment.

Comment #2

TR CreditAttribution: TR commented 22 July 2015 at 21:56

So ... I see that now the CI tests are running on contrib, after being queued for many weeks?

I'd really appreciate a heads up here and some documentation - if you suddenly break all my ten thousand tests overnight without warning I'll be pretty annoyed.

Comment #3

jthorson CreditAttribution: jthorson for Drupal Association commented 22 July 2015 at 22:06

As far as I know, the DrupalCI testing is all 'advisory' at this point.

As for breaking your tests by testing on a different system, I can't think of a better way to uncover unexpected issues with that new testing system.

Comment #4

TR CreditAttribution: TR commented 22 July 2015 at 22:30

As for breaking your tests by testing on a different system, I can't think of a better way to uncover unexpected issues with that new testing system.

My point is if you switch off the old testbot and start using the new one without warning and without a transition period, things will immediately break and my tests will become useless until I can devote a large chunk of time to fixing them. That would be really unhelpful. I'd be happy to help test the system ahead of time, and indeed I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to use this feature for several weeks before I opened this thread, but like I said in my initial post I haven't seen any announcement or documentation about what's going on here or how I can start testing my project.